"In cabalistic symbolism, the sacred palace, or the 'inner palace', is located at the junction of the six Directions of Space which, together with the centre, form a septenary... This concept of the Centre embraces the heart and the mind."
A Dictionary of Symbols
(J. E. Cirlot)

2

"The entire universe is a great theater of mirrors, a set of hieroglyphs to decipher; everything is a sign, everything harbors and manifests mystery. The principles of contradiction, of excluded middle, and of linear causality are supplanted by those of resolution, of included middle, and of synchronicity."
Esoteric Psychology II
(Alice A. Bailey)

3

"In Black Elk's vision, the hoop of his people will be reunited only when the tree of the center flowers once again. This is the vision of a Mandala of global consciousness."
Mandala
(Jose and Miriam Arguelles)

4

"There is but one point in the universe where God communicates with us, and that is the center of our own soul." Archbishop Ullathorne, 'Humility and Patience' (19th century)
The Book of Catholic Quotations
(John Chapin, Editor)

"Love is the most universal, formidable and mysterious of cosmic energies. From the point of view of spiritual Evolution, it seems that we might be able to give a name and a value to this strange energy of love. Could it not be, in essence, the attraction which is exercised upon each conscious element by the center of the universe? The call toward the great union, whose attainment is the only real business in nature…?"
Building the Earth
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

"Many paths lead to the central experience. But the nearer one gets to the centre the easier it is to understand the other paths that lead there."
C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961
(Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors)

11

"All things proceed from God, who is at once the centre and the circumference from which all existing lines proceed and at which all end up." Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695), Mexican nun, poet and scholar
The Lion Christian Quotation Collection
(Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)

12

"However vast the divine milieu may be, it is in reality a centre. It therefore has the properties of a centre, and above all the absolute and final power to unite (and consequently to complete) all beings within its breast."
The Divine Milieu
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

13

"One: Symbolic of being and of the revelation of the spiritual essence. It is the active principle which, broken into fragments, gives rise to multiplicity, and is to be equated with the mystic Centre, the Irradiating Point and the Supreme Power. It also stands for spiritual unity – the common basis between all beings."
A Dictionary of Symbols
(J. E. Cirlot)

14

"The mandala is, above all, a map of the cosmos. It is the whole universe in its essential plan, in its process of emanation and of reabsorption…..the universe not only in its inert spatial expanse, but as temporal revolution and both as a vital process which develops from an essential principle and rotates round a central axis." G. Tucci
Mandala
(Jose and Miriam Arguelles)

15

"Actually there is no merging with the Center. We are always merged with the Center. It is rather an understanding of this eternal union now, and not a manufacture of it tomorrow."
Spectrum of Consciousness
(Ken Wilber)

"What is required is the finding of that Immovable Point within one's self, which is not shaken by any of those tempests which the Buddhists call 'the eight karmic winds': fear of pain, desire for pleasure; fear of loss; desire for gain; fear of blame, desire for praise; fear of disgrace; desire for fame." Joseph Campbell
Tarot Revelations
(Joseph Campbell & Richard Roberts)

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"If man has alienated himself from the source, the center within, then it is the purpose of a Mandala ritual for our time to be used as a primal tool for investigating and opening that center, once again granting the individual an identification with the cosmic forces and their source."
Mandala
(Jose and Miriam Arguelles)

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"Work with symbols will be found of real value if you persevere. I would give you a hint about them which your intuition will reveal. Where the converging lines of any symbol meet and where the many lines cross there is a point of force and of illumination, a focussed centre through which the illumined mind can pierce. Ponder on this."
Discipleship in the New Age
(Alice A. Bailey)

20

"We know the energy that causes water to circulate: it is the sun and her unlimited and divine energy. Perhaps we ought to assume the existence of a similar energy for spiritual realms – a sort of central sun."
Lectures on the I Ching: Constancy and Change
(Richard Wilhelm)

21

"Jung's involvement with the mandala culminated in his insight that it represented the center, the midpoint that balance all dualities." Michael Flanagin, Ph.D., 'The Mandala in Jungian Psychotherapy'
Mandala, Luminous Symbols for Healing
(Judith Cornell, Ph.D.)

22

"What is the work of works for man if not to establish, in and by each one of us, an absolutely original centre in which the universe reflects itself in a unique and inimitable way? And those centres are our very selves and personalities."
The Phenomenon of Man
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

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"In the Beginning was the Center: the center of the mind of God, the eternal Creator, the Dream of Brahman, the galaxies that swirl beyond the lenses of our great telescopes. In all of these the center is one, and in the center lies eternity."
Mandala
(Jose and Miriam Arguelles)

24

"The world we know does not develop haphazardly, but is structurally dominated by a Personal Centre of universal convergence."
Science and Christ
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

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"The number one is equivalent to the 'Centre', to the non-manifest point, to the creative power of the 'unmoved mover'.
Tarot Revelations
(Joseph Campbell & Richard Roberts)